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MSI Develops a Heat-Driven Cooler
V!NCENT tips us to a write-up about an addition to MSI's Ecolution motherboard which harvests heat from the chipset to power a fan. The device is based on a Stirling engine. The heat from the chipset expands a trapped gas, which pushes against a piston to generate power. The article contains a YouTube video of how the device works. According to MSI, the device has 70% efficiency. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=Oe7Fe3
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